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The XYZZY Award for Best NPCs is one of the annual awards given by XYZZYnews to works of interactive fiction. This award has been given since 1996. The award for Best NPCs recognizes a particularly appropriate, amusing, and and well-written cast of non-player characters.Below, the winners of the award for each year are listed, followed by the other finalists for that year.
- 1996: Kissing the Buddha's Feet by Leon Lin
- Lost New York by Neil deMause
- Small World by Andrew Pontious
- The Underoos that Ate New York by G. Kevin Wilson
- The Wedding by Neil Brown
- 1997: The Frenetic Five vs. Sturm und Drang by Neil deMause
- Everybody Loves a Parade by Cody Sandifer
- I-0 by Adam Cadre
- She's Got a Thing for a Spring by Brent vanFossen
- Zero Sum Game by Cody Sandifer
- 1998: Once and Future by G. Kevin Wilson
- Guilty Bastards by Kent Tessman
- Mother Loose by Irene Callaci
- Muse by Chris Huang
- Photopia by Adam Cadre
- 1999: Varicella by Adam Cadre
- A Day For Soft Food by Tod Levi
- The Frenetic Five vs. Mr. Redundancy Man by Neil deMause
- The Mulldoon Legacy by Jon Ingold
- Worlds Apart by Suzanne Britton
- 2000: Being Andrew Plotkin by J. Robinson Wheeler
- Galatea by Emily Short
- Heroine's Mantle by Andy Phillips
- Kaged by Ian Finley
- Punk Points by Jim Munroe
- Rameses by Stephen Bond
- 20012001 is a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar), and also: The International Year of the Volunteer The United Nations Year of Dialogue Among Civilizations Events January January 1 A black monolith measuring approximately nine feet tall ap: Pytho's Mask , by Emily Short
- Best of Three by Emily Short
- Fallacy of Dawn by Robb Sherwin
- Textfire Golf by Adam Cadre
- You Are Here by Roy FisherRoy Fisher (born 1930) is a British poet and jazz pianist. He was one of the first British writers to absorb the poetics of William Carlos Williams and the Black Mountain poets into the British poetic tradition. Fisher was a key precursor of the British P
- 20022002 is a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). 2002 was the first palindromic year since 1991 and the last until 2112. 2002 was also designated: International Year of Ecotourism and Mountains National Science Year in the United Kingdom: Lock & Key by Adam Cadre
- Foverer Always by Iain Merrick
- The Frenetic Five vs. the Seven Deadly Dwarves by Neil deMause
- The PK Girl by Robert Goodwin
- Tookie's Song by Jessica Knoch
- 2003: City of Secrets by Emily Short
- Narcolepsy by Adam Cadre
- Risorgimento Represso by Michale Coyne
- Shadows on the Mirror by Chrysoula Tzavelas
- Slouching Towards Bedlam by Daniel Ravipinto and Star Foster
